sympathy

extend one's sympathy (to someone)

to express sympathy to someone. (A very polite and formal way to tell someone that you are sorry about a misfortune.) Please permit me to extend my sympathy to you and your children. I'm very sorry to hear of the death of your husband.Let's extend our sympathy to Bill Jones, who is in the hospital with a broken leg. We should send him some flowers.

Despite the frequency of sympathy between characters, whether it is begrudgingly experienced or explicitly requested, many studies of sympathy in Frankenstein either focus on or conclude with the reader's alternating sympathies, which are typically strongest for the monster.

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